Badminton Wales are in urgent need of volunteers for the 4 Nations Para-Badminton event at SWNC this Saturday 22nd September. They are needed to assist players with scoring and which side to serve and receive serve from. The event is scheduled to start at 9:30am and is due to finish at around 3pm. If you can help or require further information, please email James at james.dowle@badminton.wales

The choosing of ‘fair’ games based on arrival time, games played, levels / mixed balance (if you are a mixed club) with an auto pick feature ensures a court is never empty. The monitoring of electronic verses traditional pegboard has shown a 30%+ increase in court utilisation, which obviously means more games for your members, App can also be put in Manual mode.

Administration is locked behind a password so that the committee can setup the session configuration. Each time the App is opened a new session automatically starts with the set configuration.

Matches on a club night are no problem, just remove those courts to start with and then re-add them once they become available. You can do this dynamically, so if you ‘share’ a court between match and club night this can be accommodated.

The App contains a player database so when they arrive to play they can just pick themselves off the list. New players can be added at any time during a session and they get automatically added to the database.

The App is available on both Android and iOS devices. Its not very power hungry so an older tablet should still work.

Only captains and fixture secretaries can add scoresheets, you have to login to the website to add a scoresheet by clicking the login button in the top menu. This allows us to track who added the score sheet if there is a problem. Your username is in the format:

Firstname.surname

e.g. alan.griffiths

If you don’t know your password then there is a Lost your password? option on the login page, clicking this will e-mail you a link to reset your password. The website needs your correct e-mail address to send the link. If you don’t get the e-mail or know your username then e-mail me and I will sort it out – alang2101@hotmail.com.

So the website is a week old, few issues last week as expected, thank you for your feedback and patience. If for any reason from this point you are unable to add a scoresheet to the website then let me know or forward me a copy by e-mail and I will add, doesn’t take long. All known bugs fixed over the weekend, the biggest issue is where players have moved clubs since last year or are new and so don’t appear in the dropdown for the club.

The Add New player option in the dropdown now works, looking for the system to check the surname added against exiting players in the Db before adding so as to reduce duplicates, it might be that the player is in the Db but against a different club.

There is an issue where two sides from the same club play each other regards how it shows the scoresheet, this is being fixed today.We are looking to have the reminder e-mails to opposing captains going live this week.

Captains and fixture secretarys, your login is firstname.surname, if you don’t know your password, go to LOGIN and say Lost password? to get a new password e-mailed to you.

New user guide uploaded…

Quick tip: When adding the scores you can use the dropdown but I find it quicker to click on the first score box in the first rubber, ignore the dropdown and just type the value, then press tab to go to the next box. Keep pressing tab to cycle through all the score boxes. If the score is in the teens i.e. 12 then when you type 11 it goes to 10, hit 1 again and it goes to 11, 1 again it goes to 12 etc. If you have a scan of the scoresheet then please attach it.